President Obama’s rush to junk his 2008 “Hope and Change” motto to something more pragmatic could depress his loyal support among African-Americans. The reason: a good majority believe that America’s best days are ahead of it.
A new Rasmussen poll finds that 53 percent of black voters say the nation’s greatest days are still to come, a view whites, Republicans and the average American don’t see. The poll found that just 37 percent of whites and 25 percent of voters of other ethnicities believe the future looks good.
In his telephone survey of 1,000 February 12-13, Rasmussen found that overall, just 37 percent of likely voters see the nation’s best days in the future. Many more, 46 percent, say America’s best days have past, a depressing view likely the product of unemployment, high gas prices and even political division.
Worse, Rasmussen found, the nation’s grim view of America’s future is stuck in a negative rut with the percentage of those seeing the best days long gone in the mid- to high-40s for years.
Exactly half of Democrats believe the nation’s best days are in the future, but 59 percent of Republicans and 44 percent of voters not affiliated with either party disagree.
